EllaMentry

From the image: "There will be teams organized around business goals....and teams organized around what they do (like teaching, video, developer etc.)"

Sounds an awful lot like an executive group....(read: managers)

The paper is charting how sex and gender have been used throughout academic literature in the past few decades. In the last few decades we have learned swathes more about the complexity of gender identity and diversity, not just in western culture but it many others. Biological sex on the other hand it pretty well understood, and is certainly correlated with gender identity, but is distinct. It makes a lot of sense that papers about gender have increased while paper talking about sex have decreased, it aligns with new knowledge.

And the paper makes the point that new writers to the field often use gender in place of sex because they don't understand the full complexity of the word.

Or you know....delete your comment:

"I would love for you to explain what it is that I failed to understand about the paper, since I do enjoy learning new things. I'm not holding my breath though."

They have completely different connotations...one is a self descriptive, the other is belittling.

Read the paper and better understand what you just quoted...

The two words mean entirely different things...

Wow...I don't know how much more stereotypical sexist male you could get in one email..."girls", "pink lanyard", gender binaries...

The way to attract more women, stike, people to your conference is not through tokenizing them...it's by making the conference interesting (having some diversity in the organization group would be a start!)

Just a heads up, you list C# twice under Programming Languages...you must really like it ;)

I have had an internet connection since I was 11, and a computer a few year prior to that. Int he beginning the only way my parents let me use the internet/computer was in a public room (in our case it was the study)...as I got older my parents bought me my own laptop and allowed me more privacy to browse...as long as I did my homework, and didn't spend all day on the computer all was well.

No automated parental controls at all...being realistic I was always better at using the computer than my parents, I would have got around them anyway.

These days I would go one step further and say make sure the browser they are using has a good ad blocker etc. Begin with a public setting so you can keep an eye on them, then as they get older, just leave them be.

That is a very long article based on flawed argument.

Given no other information, assuming someone gave you 2 envelopes and told you one has $40 vs $20, common sense dictates choose 1 randomly and walk away - with no other information it is illogical to reason any other way.

The chance you choose the lower value is 1/2.

Now, if you are allowed to look inside the envelope (which gets introduced further down) then it becomes a different game.

Get $20...well by swapping you may get $10 or $40...you should probably swap.

Get $2000...well by swapping you may get $1000 or $4000...you should probably swap.

I think this works all the way up...someone with a bit more background on game theory may be able to formalise it, but the realisation that swapping forever leads to $0 nullifies this "paradox"

I really have no clue what your point is here...

The first link concerns a small group protesting against increased automation...this has happened in practically every place that has had manufacturing...

The second concerns road safety acts, although they sound ludicrous by todays standards, served as an important step in the transition from horses to automobiles - in a country which had been relying on horses for transport for atleast 1000 years prior.

It is hard to make any judgement or give advice without some data...can you upload your resume to share? Maybe there is something that stands out?

Actually you started off by saying you can't teach "talent", now you are saying you can teach it but it may be hard...

Do you honestly think your genetics is playing against you in your study of mathematics? Which bits are you struggling with? What have you tried to fix it? What courses have you taken? Have you tried private tutoring? khan academy? Have you tried anything for longer than a couple of a days? weeks? How many hours of deliberate practice do you think you have put into studying mathematics?

Swimming is not innate...some people do pick it up easily, others take a couple of times, but I have never heard of anybody who is "unable to learn how to swim" and once they learn they can practice and get very good at it....there is sometimes a genetic advantage (Micheal Phelps springs to mind) - but he wasn't always nearly 7 foot swimming giant, he had to learn different techniques and practice for hour and hours a day to get as good as he is.

Are you serious?!

The first couple of drawings are terrible, primary school level drawings - the perspective, shading etc. are all completely off.

If you honestly believe you couldn't pull something like that off given 30 minutes of dedicated drawing...well I don't believe you.

Some more examples of skills that are learned:

* Programming

* Public Speaking

* Estimation

* Throwing

* Juggling

Or are you going to start telling me that some babies are born with an innate ability to juggle? or programming?

I am not saying these skills are easy or trivial, they require thousands of hours of dedicated practice. It sounds to me you think most people are simply good at something and do that...when in fact people spend thousands of hours honing and perfecting skills.

You can't jump into the water and start swimming until you lean how to control your body through crawling, standing and lifting...with maths...you may be unable to grasp theorems because you lack basic training in propositional logic (something that is rarely taught before undergraduate unfortunately - it is so simple and provides a grounding that would make any additional mathematics teaching a whole lot easier) - what is your mathematical background? what books have you studied? what lectures/courses have you taken? Lets see if we can't fix this!

This is completely false:

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/09/jonathan-hardesty-9-yea... (the original forum thread seems to be down at the moment) - but it chronicles a guy who started to learn to draw and over the course of 9 years you can see the improvement.

I started playing guitar when I was 11...did I suck then...yes...I could barley hold a full sized guitar...and over the years I have learned new techniques and practiced endlessly...and now people would say I am pretty good.

Writing and math are no different - to peg them as just "talent you are born with" deprives the subject of all the work they have done throughout their lives.

Concrete Mathematics should not be too hard to understand for someone who understands basic algebra. Most of the topics it covers use nothing more than arithmetic and simple logic.

That said it is not a good general mathematics book (it is designed as a Computer Science book).

A book that will help you - How to think like a Mathematician: http://www.amazon.ca/How-Think-Like-Mathematician-Undergradu...

English is a tricky language, good on you for attempting to master it - you can write better in English than I can in any other language!

I hope you don't mind me providing some feedback on your writing!

"I am trying to fix my spellings and grammar." - We generally say "spelling and grammar", even though "spellings" is technically correct - when people say they want to improve their spelling, they generally talk about a skill rather than individual spellings.

"It been going on for a month now." - It (has) been going on for a month now - although this could have easily been a typo.

Best wishes on your endeavour.

That is interesting, from a reread, I would say the "youngness" is a product of the length and over-descriptiveness.

""Magic" is my term for "I don't know how it works because I haven't taken the time to figure it out yet" - it's an attribute of my understanding of a thing, not of the thing itself; that is, it's the Clarkian definition." - No one speaks like that - it makes it sound like you are trying to come across smarter than you really are - Every developer under the sun understands what you mean when you say "Magic"

At it's most essential it sounds like you gobbled up a "software best practices book" and then spouted chapter titles without any context - Examples definitely help!

e.g. <Module Z> is a great example of why we need to keep our code clean, since I joined the team no fewer than X lines have been added resulting in this module having Y different responsibilities - because <Module Z> is so bloated we have Q different tickets in our backlog which will result in code changes to it.

<Module T> and <Module R> are a perfect example of where we can utilize code reuse. Both contain a function Y, which we make heavy use of - we should consider extracting this into a common library function etc. etc.

If you make an actual proposal instead of a complaint, people are more likely to listen - it is a lot harder to argue against raw data than it is a personal opinion.

Honestly this does not read well. You have some decent points (not unique points to any professional software engineer but good points) - there are several grammatical errors "to(sic) much magic" and you have not provided any examples.

You state that you are new to the project - from the writing style it sounds like you are fairly young, so I would guess this is your first programming gig? Either way take a professional writing course.

Provide examples - where are there problems with code clarity? Where are the repeated sections? Simply stating there are problems help nobody - you need data - how many repeated lines? What is the overhead of this code? How many special cases etc.

Good luck!

I would have thought this would be common sense by now - don't submit to a polygraph ever - it cannot help you, only hurt you. And don't submit to any kind of interrogation without a talking to a lawyer first. Relevant video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

True, however, I also noted the sample was not just small but narrow. 72, female, university students - I would be surprised if over 6-8 weeks their cognitive capacity didn't improve in a measurable way - university can be a very demanding environment.

The study makes no mention of controlling for degree programs or a variety of other factors which would affect cognitive development, combined with the incredibly small sample size, It is my opinion that any conclusions from this research need to be taken with a pinch of salt.

"The participant pool was composed entirely of 72 female students at the University of Texas at Austin, because researchers were unable to find male participants who played computer games for less than two hours a day."

The sample size seems far too small and narrow to draw any conclusions from.

BY definition it cannot be the fastest AND most secured...

As slater pointed out fastest would be direct client to client with no intermediary and no slow encryption.

Adding encryption to somethings makes it slower...even if it is only by a couple of micro/milliseconds (not to mention the time spent generating keys...)

So is it the fastest, secured messenger? Or the most secured messenger which is also quite fast? Is this a service or a client program?

I'll try to be helpful...

"Fastest" "Secured" "Cloud Computing"...none of these things is like the other...

If you want to attract potential partners you are going to have to provide more details.

What are you bringing to the table?

In many countries Engineer is a protected title, that should not be used unless the person has formal qualifications and experience in a certain field http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_eng....

There is a relevant Black Mirror episode where the premise is a society where the majority of people have implants that record everything around them (and can then project and playback these moments) - like all Black Mirror episodes it has some interesting insights into how this affects society and people.

I definitely think we should hold some people to these standards (law enforcement, security guards, judges, politicians to name a few) - but for society as a whole? No thanks.

There are no shortage of jobs for talented people (especially in Canada! Companies are bringing in thousands of immigrants every year because they literally can't employ enough Canadians!). If you have a degree in Maths, Biology, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry or any other hard science discipline or Engineering (Electrical, Chemical etc.) and can't find a job then you are not looking in the right places.

You shouldn't have a problem in Ontario, but don't be afraid to look further out (Vancouver, Alberta) for those kind of jobs.

I just looked down to see you took a Science and Business course...as someone looking at CV's I literally have no idea what that means...what can you bring to an organization? What can you produce or create?

You say you consider yourself a junior rails developer, what have you built? How do you plan to utilise your course in your future work?

Alternatively...

Recognize that you will never be happy in a relationship until you are happy with yourself. There is plenty of time to fall in love, seize the opportunity while you are young to explore and don't let yourself be tied down to a town/province/country.

My first serious relationship didn't come along till I was 24...by that point I had lived in 3 countries, visited dozens more and had hundreds of exciting opportunities (both in work and outside of work).

I know who I am outside of a relationship and I know that is a very attractive quality in myself and others.

"Going to a school program that has more men than women is a colossal failure of the kind of intelligence that actually matters."

Oh please! Going to a school program based on anything other than the quality of schooling program is a colossal failure of the kind of intelligence that matters. Schools have more than one department. Do what you love to do and make friends (of all kinds) from all over the school (Humanities, Hard Sciences, Maths, Soft Sciences..) - Life does not end with the classroom door.

I have no hard facts and figures, just some anecdotal evidence, but this reads like pure politics to me as well.

I have never struggled with mathematics, in fact I pursued it to college, then got infatuated with computer science - but my areas of focus (optimization and algorithm design) tend to overlap - and I find myself reading quite a lot of graduate level texts.

My girlfriend on the other hand has always struggled with mathematics, but wishes to pursue a career in computer science also. I watched her for several weeks struggling and worry about a college entrance exam, reading the obscurely written criteria and trying to read through the suggested resources.

It was only when someone else mentioned Khan Academy that we both went to look at it - I found the content accessible, very well presented (for the most part - a couple of the older videos could have done with an update!) and the accompanied exercises were excellent in reenforcing content - the added gamificaiton really adds to it as well.

My girlfriend passed her exam (> 90%) and was even told she should think about taking the extra level exam later on if she wished to skip a few pre courses.

To see her go from "I have no idea what to do" to "I know I can do this" was a joy - so thank you Khan Academy.